Readers of Theresa Tomlinson's The Forestwife will most likely be interested in other twentieth-century retellings of the Robin Hood legend. These include: Esther Friesner's 1995 The Sherwood Game (in which characters from a computer game are "brought to life"); Parke Godwin's Robin and the King (1993) and Sherwood (1991), both of which are rich in historical research and reference; Jennifer Roberson's Lady of the Forest: A Novel of Sherwood (1992), which focuses more on Maid Marian but is narrated from several perspectives; and—as mentioned earlier—Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood, as well as Howard Pyle's highly influential The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.

Those readers interested in Robin Hood retellings of other eras should be first referred to the most influential and the best loved; among these are: Pierce Egan the Younger's Robin Hood and Little John: or, The Merry Men of Sherwood Forest...